The Santa Clarita Ballet Company will present Beauty and the Beast and As the Piano Rolls this September at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at College of the Canyons. Performances are Saturday, September 13 and 14 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale July 1. Tickets will not be sold through the Performing Arts Center prior to the event. For tickets and information, please call the Santa Clarita Ballet at 661-251-0366. Advanced purchase is recommended as shows will sell out quickly.
In 2013, the Santa Clarita Ballet expanded their annual production schedule to include performances in the fall. It had long been the vision of Corinne Glover, Executive Director, and Carol Guidry, Artistic Director, to produce a highly sophisticated program in which they exclusively invite professional dancers to perform with their upper level dancers. Their June productions and the Nutcracker in December feature upper level dancers and professional guest artists but also invite younger Academy students to perform. What makes the fall shows so unique is that they are cast entirely with professional and Company dancers, taking the artistry to an exquisite and elite level. The Company includes very seasoned and accomplished dancers, many of whom are well on their way towards college or professional careers in dance. Professional artists for the fall production are currently being lined up and will be announced to the public soon.
Beauty and the Beast is an exquisite full-length classic ballet choreographed for the Santa Clarita Ballet Company by their Artistic Director, Carol Guidry. Opulent new costumes, visually rich scenery, and impressionistic themes of early 20th century composers, Claude Debussy and Jaques Faure, complement this beautiful ballet.
Ms. Guidry is credited for the original work, As the Piano Rolls. The infectious music of one of America’s great jazz composers, George Gershwin sets the stage for charming jazz age vignettes that take place in a dance hall in the 1920’s. Here, four lonely hearts: “The Two Sisters,” “The Show-off” and “The Wallflower” come to listen to the player piano, have a dance, or maybe even meet that special someone. The tunes are so toe tappin’, even the piano can’t stand still.
Beauty and the Beast and As the Piano Rolls are being presented in the second production of The Santa Clarita Ballet Company’s three-part 20th anniversary series. The first production in the series was Snow White which was presented to sold-out audiences in June. The third production in the series will be their beloved Nutcracker ballet in December.
For reservations and information, please call the Santa Clarita Ballet at 661-251-0366. The Santa Clarita Ballet Company is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization. Ticket purchases and table sponsorships are tax deductible.